Directory



G. SCHUBEL.

DIRECTOR-Y.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 5. 1920.

1,364,527. Pa nted Jan. 4, 1921.

TlE E @513 Cation 10 UNITED STATES GEORGE SCHUBEL, OF RIDGEWOOD, NEWYORK.

DIRECTORY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 4, 1921.

Application filed April 5, 1920. Serial No. 371,248.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE ScHUBEL, citizen of the United States, andresident of Ridgewood, in the county of Queens and State of New York,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Directories, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to directories, information books, and the like,and has for its main object to provide a ready reference directory ofinformation having a cover indeX which will at a glance indicate thesection of the book in which the desired information is to be found.

Another object of the invention is to provide a combination of colors orshades on the cover of the book, and to provide correspondingly coloredor shaded sections within the book, each color or shade on the coverbearing a caption indicative of the kind of information to be found onthe similarly-colored or -shaded section within the book.

The above and other objects will become apparent in the descriptionbelow, in which characters of reference refer to like-named parts in thedrawings.

Referring briefly to the drawings, Figure l is a view of my directoryshowing the cover index thereof.

Fig. 2 is a view in end elevation of the directory, showing thearrangement of sections within the book.

Fig. 3 is a view of the directory when opened, partly in section,showing the arrangement of sections within the book.

Referring now in detail to the drawings, the numeral 1 represents theusual stiff or flexible cover of the directory, and 2 the back thereof.The numeral 3 represents the sectional or loose-leaf binding meanspreferably used with my directory, and which is the subject of myco-pending application for a United States Patent, bearing Serial No.345,629, filed Dec. 17, 1919.

On the cover 1 of the book is arranged a ready reference index as shown,comprising a central design bearing the title of the book, and radiatingsectors emanating from said central design, each of said sectors bearinga caption, as shown. The said sectors may be variously shaded orcolored; in the drawing, the sector 5 is red, 15 is green, 13 is orange,11 is brown, 9 is blue, and 7 is yellow. Of course I do not desire tolimit myself to any particular varietyor arrangement of colors orshades, nor to the number of captions on the cover, nor to the samenumber of sections within the book. I have provided white or unicoloredsectors between each pair of neighboring colored sectors, as at 4, 6, 8,10, 12, and 14, in order to the better offset the sectors which arecolored.

The interior of the book is composed of a number of separate sections,each in itself containing all the desired information about one subject,or a group of related subjects.

he sections are severally releasably bound by the binding means 3, or byany other desirable binding means. The several sec tions in the book arecolored corresponding to the colored sectors on the index, thus: thesection 7, which is yellow, contains information about churches, thesection 9*, which is blue, contains information about hospitals; 11brown, about libraries and schools, 13, orange, about officials, 15,green, about trolleys, or surface cars; and 5*, red, about banks andinstitutions.

In use, should one desire, for instance, to call a hospital, or to learnits address, or to gather any other information about it which may becontained in the directory, he will at a glance note that the captionospitals lies in a blue ground, andhe will quickly find the blue section9 within the book, in which he will then readily find the informationabout the particular hospital in which he is interested.

The directory is very practical and useful in cities, towns,communities, etc., in which it is important for people to be able tolocate, either by telephone number or street address, such places asabove-mentioned. Of course, the directory may contain any otherinformation as desired, arranged in any desired manner.

Thus it is apparent that I have provided a useful ready referencedirectory and index therefor.

I claim:

A directory, book, or the like, comprising a cover, a plurality ofsections contained within said cover, characteristic colors on saidsections, an index on said cover comprising a central portion bearingthe title of the book, captions arranged in radial sectors on said coversurrounding said central portion, each of said sectors being colored incorrespondence with one of said sections.

GEORGE SCHUBEL.

